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Re: [Cython] Releasing Nuitka 0.1

From:

Burak Arslan

Date:

2010-08-23 @ 10:38

 On 08/23/10 13:35, Burak Arslan wrote:
>  On 08/23/10 13:16, Burak Arslan wrote:
>> kay,
>>
>> great work, i can collaborate with you on this.
>>
>> to do that effectively, i've re-packaged nuitka to be setuptools
>> compatible and created a github repo out of it. i've also created a
>> maling list for nuitka at librelist (cc'd)
>>
>> the git repo is here: http://github.com/plq/nuitka
>>
>> note that i removed the following notice from file headers:
>>
>> #     If you submit patches to this software in either form, you
>> automatically
>> #     grant me a copyright assignment to the code, or in the alternative
>> #     license to the code, should your jurisdiction prevent this. This is to
>> #     reserve my ability to re-license the code at any time.
>>
>> because i refuse to grant copyright of my code to whoever that "me"
>> person is.
>>
>> best regards,
>> burak
>>
> a few more points:
>
> 1)
>
> please read this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> i'd like to reformat the code according to pep8 before it's too late.
>
> tl;dr: CamelCase only in class-like objects, names_with_underscores in
> everything else, 80-col line breaks.
>
> 2)
>
> python doesn't need accessors as it has properties. getting rid of them
> will save some boilerplate.
>
> class Example(object):
>     def __init__(self):
>         self.__prop = None
>
>     def get_prop(self):
>         return self.__prop
>
>     def set_prop(self, val):
>         self.__prop = val
>
>     prop = property(get_prop, set_prop)
>
> e=Example()
> print e.prop # calls get_prop
> e.prop = 'punk' # calls set_prop
>
> the code is much cleaner this way, don't you think?
>
> see here for more info:
> http://adam.gomaa.us/blog/2008/aug/11/the-python-property-builtin/
>

3)

you're making good use of multiple inheritance.

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/

using new style classes is easier because it has a better multiple
inheritance implementation.

so always inherit from object when defining new classes.

> best,
> burak
>
>
>
>> On 08/19/10 08:02, Kay Hayen wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Obviously this is very exciting step for me. I am releasing Nuitka 
>>> today. Finally. For a long time I knew I would, but actually doing it, 
>>> is a different beast. Reaching my goals for release turned out to be 
>>> less far away than I hope, so instead of end of August, I can already 
>>> release it now.
>>>
>>> Currently it’s not more than 4% faster than CPython. No surprise there, 
>>> if all you did, is removing the bytecode interpretation so far. It’s not 
>>> impressive at all. It’s not even a reason to use it. But it’s also only 
>>> a start. Clearly, once I get into optimizing the code generation of 
>>> Nuitka, it will only get better, and then probably in sometimes dramatic 
>>> steps. But I see this as a long term goal.
>>>
>>> http://kayhayen24x7.homelinux.org/blog/2010/08/releasing-nuitka-to-the-world/
>>>
>>> I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did enjoy writing it. I will 
>>> appreciate your feedback. My ability to respond will be limited due to 
>>> my day job which keeps me busy, but I will try.
>>>
>>> If some minor things come up, there likely will be a 0.1.1 at the end of 
>>> August. After that I am moving to a new house and you know how time 
>>> consuming that can be.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>> Kay Hayen
>>>
>>> PS: I'm hosting my blog and the home NAS machine, which should run 24x7, 
>>> so don't be surprised if its slow or temporarily unavailable.
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